Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 226 Black Qi
226 Chapter 226 Black Qi

The little brother said: "There is a black air surging out from the swamp below. It should be that kind of black mist. We need to go in the direction of the water flow. There should be a wellhead in front of us. The wellway must go downwards. However, It’s going to be complicated down there.”

Wen Jin said: "From the outside, the road here has always been winding. Could it be that the waterway is not straight? If so, the water flow is all the way down and the water speed is turbulent. The shaft should be smoother. , it is estimated that there is no focus point in the middle. If there are curves, it is easy to lose balance and get injured. In addition, the things inside should also be washed down together. We have to line up tighter, otherwise it will be scattered in the middle. It’s very troublesome.”

"Brother, do you need to make a mud mask after you go down? It can block the black poisonous gas to some extent, right?" I saw the little brother nodded, and then sat up.

I raised my left arm out of habit, trying to reach out and touch my small bag hanging on the left side, but I let out a small "Uh..." and forgot about the wound. The paralysis of the snake venom gradually faded away. But the knife hurt so much that it hurt, and it got stuck there.

The little brother took a step forward, stretched out his hand and pulled my small bag in front of me. I reached into the bag with my right hand and fumbled a few times, and took out three cloth masks. I asked them: "Will this be easier to use?" Put it on the mud, fold it, put it on your nose and hold it against your face, so that your hands can be free."

Wen Jin took it and looked at it and said, "Let me do this. They are all in front, so we have to be careful to hide it."

The little brother said: "Tie your clothes tightly and let's go."

Looking at the black energy, Wu Xie gritted his teeth and froze. At this moment, he was stuck on the branch in a dilemma. He was really worried to death. While he was thinking about what to do, he was paying close attention to the situation below.

He thought, in fact, the black gas should be biogas. Places like swamps are often foggy, and bubbles will appear from time to time in the swamp. This is usually the fermentation process of biogas bacteria when they decompose organic matter. look like.

Because there had been heavy rain in this swamp before, the poisonous gas mixed with the rotting corpses and rotting leaves under the mud evaporated. There are so many poisons here, so it contains toxins that can cause temporary blindness.

It is precisely because of some weird poisons that many tropical rainforests like this have become places that humans cannot touch.

Depending on the environment and landforms, some poisonous gases are volatilized by some special minerals or volcanic gases. They will mix with fog to form highly toxic clouds. This is why there are many poisonous gases in the world that even birds cannot fly. Causes of the formation of the "Valley of Death" in the past.

However, if this is really the kind of blinding fog that I encountered in front of the temple, it is very likely that I will be poisoned and blinded again. If I accidentally encounter a group of snakes again, I might end up like the fat man. , has become their egg incubator, I said in my heart, I don’t want it. If that is the case, I might as well kill myself.

Wu Xie prayed in his heart that the black air would only spread under the trees and would not rise to the top of the tree. It would be best if the black air could dissipate on its own like the fog.

However, this was obviously impossible. The black energy was rolling as if it were alive, slowly began to move upward, and soon filled the entire space. Not to mention that it did not dissipate, but became more intense.

Wu Xie took a look and realized that this was not good. The black energy this time was too strong. If he was poisoned, it might not only cause blindness. In desperation, he immediately tore off a piece of cloth from his clothes. He wiped it on his body, rubbed a large piece of black mud on it, covered his mouth and nose with it, and then made another one for the fat man.

He quickly found some vines around him, thinking of tying himself up and hanging him on a tree. Even if he was poisoned and became confused, at least he wouldn't fall from the tree.

As soon as he finished doing this, the black energy had already spread to his feet, and was covering the branch they were sitting on in the blink of an eye at an alarming speed.

The black energy spread so fast that it was overwhelmed by it before it even had time to escape.He also heard the trees here making a slight "crackling" sound, and everything was shrouded in darkness.

At the same time, Wu Xie smelled a strange smell, and his throat began to feel itchy. He felt like he was trapped in a house on fire, so he instinctively held his breath and took as few breaths as possible.

A few seconds later, he realized that he did not die immediately, so he thought that the black gas was not very toxic, but it was hard to say what the consequences would be if he inhaled too much.

At this moment, we were all ready. The younger brother pulled me up, and Wen Jin followed. We walked to the edge of the cliff, in front of the tree he climbed when he went down.

As soon as I stood still, the little brother picked me up and carried me on his back. Wen Jin also cooperated very much and gave me a hand, successfully hanging me on his back.

Immediately afterwards, the two of them looked for rattans of suitable thickness and length. Without saying anything, they looked at each other and prepared to start walking down.

They went all the way down without stopping. I just looked at the darkness below, which felt quite scary. The black air was still coming upwards, and I couldn't see anything below.

We quickly descended into the swamp, and in the darkness, I couldn't see anything... I just felt the little brother put me down and said to me: "Hold me, don't let go." Without saying a word, she touched his clothes and grabbed him tightly.

After Wen Jin landed, he squatted down as quickly as possible to dig out the mud at the bottom of the swamp, got it on the mask, folded it in half again, kept his own, and handed the other two to his brother.

The little brother called me: "Girl." I looked up in the direction of the voice and said "Huh?"

Then suddenly a hand touched my face, and I closed my eyes immediately. He pinched my nose, and then the little brother touched the black and put the mud mask on my nose with the lanyard hook. Behind my ears, he put it on himself and stretched out his hand to hold me again.

Soon, the three of us were ready and started moving in the direction of the water flow. The younger brother and Wen Jin sandwiched me between them, keeping a distance where they could reach out and catch me. The water flow here is very strong. Urgent, I can't even walk with such a small body.

The little brother picked up a flashlight and looked around. At this moment, my strong flashlight was not bright enough. The darkness here was not so dark that all lights could illuminate it. The little brother said, "This doesn't look like fog, it's more like smoke."

"Smoke?" I looked through the light and saw that the black gas seemed to have small solid particles, which indeed looked like smoke, so I said to the younger brother: "As for the black smoke, there was only one place where there was black smoke. It’s very scary, it’s the insect-scented jade in the Heavenly Palace, isn’t it just like this black smoke? Maybe this smoke is also used to attract something.”

The little brother said: "No matter what it is, hold on tight and don't let go."

Under the light of the miner's lamp, Wu Xie saw that the mist looked very familiar and felt more like smoke. He seemed to have seen this black smoke somewhere. Where did it come from?I didn't think about it after thinking about it for a long time, but I felt vaguely uneasy in my heart, and it was accompanied by an extremely unlucky feeling.

Suddenly he thought of Menyoupin. He insisted on arresting people at night. He said it was too dangerous, but this guy just didn't listen to him. He suddenly became angry and asked his ancestors in his heart. , it must be that I really trusted him too much before. When he said that, I was stunned because I couldn't hold on to my own ideas. I also blamed myself for why I didn't hold on to it at that time. If I continued to... fight for it, I wouldn't As for being in such a mess like now, if he dies here, he doesn't know who to turn to to complain. As he thinks about it, he just wants to slap himself in the mouth. I always feel that the decisions this guy has made recently are a bit abnormal.

But then I thought about it, in fact, I didn't know if everything would be safe at night. It seemed that no matter who I listened to, I couldn't escape.

I just lamented that I didn’t bring a gas mask with me at that time. This was indeed my mistake. However, the gas masks equipped by Aning and the others were too big. Fatty and Pan Zi used old military masks. They were strong but too heavy. Considering the situation at the time, Look, it’s really inconvenient and really frustrating.

At this moment, I heard a series of churning sounds coming from the swamp at my feet. It was very deep and not noisy to my ears. It sounded like something huge was about to come out of it. I felt a little panicked. This swamp There must be something strange going on, this movement is not ordinary, what I am most worried about is that the snake is coming again, I think to myself, oh, it can't be a big snake coming to eat...

The sound of the water was getting louder and louder, as if it was approaching under the tree where they were sitting. Wu Xie hurriedly took a miner's lamp to shine it, and saw that there seemed to be a black spot as big as a calf hidden in the black air. , is constantly moving, and it really looks like it should be a bit bigger than the one I encountered before, but it is just too dark to tell whether it is a snake or not.

When the little brother heard the sound of water, he pulled me tighter. I was very scared, but I didn't know what I was afraid of... I was just thinking, what is under the mire?With this movement, it must be big, so what could it be?

Many thoughts flashed through Wu Xie's mind. He thought that the black spot came from the swamp. It must not be a land creature. The shape didn't look like the giant snake he encountered before, so he wondered if it could be Is there a big fish buried in the mud?
We all know that such big fish that often appear in swamps are probably crocodiles, but this speculation was immediately rejected by him, because if there is a crocodile as big as a calf in the mire and casually invades its territory, then he will only die. One of them had been dragged in by it a long time ago, and he should have died just now.

While Wu Xie was thinking, the black spot suddenly stopped near the spot of his mine light. It seemed that he noticed this spot of light, and suddenly felt something bad. He immediately moved the spot away and moved it to the canopy of the tree. The inside is showing the fat man.

This photo, oh my god!It was broken. The fat man's head was drooped, and black blood flowed from his eyes. Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat. He quickly reached out and touched him. He felt that the fat man's whole body was cold, and the only breath he could breathe out was not breath in. , and suddenly he broke out in a cold sweat.

He quickly moved the fat man upright, and then pinched his penis with all his strength, but there was no response after a few pinches. It was of no use. This was not because of snake venom, but because he had inhaled too much black air. He said that since he was like this, he needed to be given artificial respiration... I felt sick in my heart.

But he had to save people first. At this time, the fat man's posture was very awkward, and there were no branches behind him for him to lean on. He had to hold him with his hands to straighten his head. However, the fat man's weight, It felt like the branch couldn't hold on much longer, because the branch he was stepping on crackled, and he couldn't hold it up even if he changed positions several times in a row, and he couldn't hold his upper body with one hand.

In the end, Wu Xie simply stepped on the branch he was sitting on and lay on top of him. However, he was so anxious that he lay down on him. Suddenly, he heard a "click", followed by a crisp sound, and the branch he was sitting on "Click" it broke. Wu Xie suddenly felt his body was empty. Before he realized what was going on, he hugged the fat man and fell under the tree and fell directly into the pool.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a heavy "plop" sound not far away, and something heavy fell into the water. The boy suddenly stopped and listened carefully to the movement in front. I said softly: "Could it be Wu?" Evil? "Actually, I wanted to ask, "Do you need me to take a look?" But suddenly I remembered that there was Wen Jin next to me, and I was not allowed to reveal my spiritual power.

The little brother was stunned for a moment and said: "It's not one person, it's two people. The sound of falling into the water just now was two sounds."

Wen Jin said: "By the way, could it be the fat guy with you? Didn't he also run over here just now?"

The little brother said: "The person brought in by the snake just now is probably the fat man."

I asked: "What are you talking about? Fatty is here too? Snakes were brought here. Aren't those snakes only interested in corpses? Doesn't that mean he was bitten? I understand, Wu Xie We wanted to save the fat man and take him up, but they all fell down again, and they were not far ahead, so what should we do?"

The little brother said: "Don't make any noise and go around in front of them."

(End of this chapter)